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100 Bible Verses about Chains

Jude 1:6 ESV / 315 helpful votes

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

Jeremiah 40:4 ESV / 312 helpful votes

Now, behold, I release you today from the chains on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well, but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 281 helpful votes

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

Psalm 2:3 ESV / 252 helpful votes

“Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”

Acts 21:33 ESV / 238 helpful votes

Then the tribune came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done.

Psalm 107:10-14 ESV / 234 helpful votes

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons, for they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High. So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 231 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 217 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Psalm 68:6 ESV / 206 helpful votes

God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

Acts 12:7 ESV / 200 helpful votes

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.

Acts 12:6 ESV / 196 helpful votes

Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.

Judges 8:26 ESV / 189 helpful votes

And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.

2 Corinthians 10:1-18 ESV / 187 helpful votes

I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!— I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 184 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Luke 8:29 ESV / 179 helpful votes

For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.)

Psalm 149:8 ESV / 175 helpful votes

To bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron,

Mark 5:4 ESV / 174 helpful votes

For he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him.

Proverbs 1:9 ESV / 172 helpful votes

For they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

Exodus 28:14 ESV / 169 helpful votes

And two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.

Exodus 39:15 ESV / 168 helpful votes

And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.

1 Kings 6:21 ESV / 167 helpful votes

And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.

Isaiah 3:19 ESV / 166 helpful votes

The pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves;

Numbers 31:50 ESV / 164 helpful votes

And we have brought the Lord's offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”

John 14:6 ESV / 162 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:16 ESV / 158 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Acts 28:20 ESV / 152 helpful votes

For this reason, therefore, I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am wearing this chain.”

Philippians 1:7 ESV / 139 helpful votes

It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.

Ezekiel 7:23 ESV / 133 helpful votes

“Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

John 8:32 ESV / 129 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Daniel 5:29 ESV / 128 helpful votes

Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Jeremiah 40:1 ESV / 128 helpful votes

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him bound in chains along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

Daniel 5:7 ESV / 127 helpful votes

The king called loudly to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king declared to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

Genesis 41:42 ESV / 126 helpful votes

Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 121 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 116 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 115 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Acts 16:26 ESV / 115 helpful votes

And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.

John 1:1 ESV / 110 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Nahum 3:10 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Isaiah 45:14 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and be yours; they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will plead with you, saying: ‘Surely God is in you, and there is no other, no god besides him.’”

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 109 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Mark 5:3 ESV / 105 helpful votes

He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 102 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Ephesians 6:20 ESV / 101 helpful votes

For which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 96 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Acts 12:6-7 ESV / 96 helpful votes

Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.

Isaiah 40:19 ESV / 96 helpful votes

An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.

Revelation 20:1 ESV / 95 helpful votes

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 95 helpful votes

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 94 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 94 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Isaiah 3:20 ESV / 93 helpful votes

The headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets;

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 93 helpful votes

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

1 Peter 2:4 ESV / 92 helpful votes

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,

Romans 8:2 ESV / 92 helpful votes

For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

Psalm 73:6 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.

1 Kings 7:17 ESV / 86 helpful votes

There were lattices of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the tops of the pillars, a lattice for the one capital and a lattice for the other capital.

Exodus 39:17 ESV / 86 helpful votes

And they put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece.

Philippians 1:14 ESV / 85 helpful votes

And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

Exodus 39:18 ESV / 85 helpful votes

They attached the two ends of the two cords to the two settings of filigree. Thus they attached it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod.

Exodus 28:25 ESV / 85 helpful votes

The two ends of the two cords you shall attach to the two settings of filigree, and so attach it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod.

Exodus 28:24 ESV / 85 helpful votes

And you shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece.

Exodus 28:22 ESV / 85 helpful votes

You shall make for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.

Jeremiah 39:7 ESV / 82 helpful votes

He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.

2 Timothy 1:16 ESV / 81 helpful votes

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains,

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 81 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

John 8:36 ESV / 81 helpful votes

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 76 helpful votes

You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

John 8:12 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Philippians 1:17 ESV / 71 helpful votes

The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment.

2 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Acts 4:29 ESV / 70 helpful votes

And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness,

Philippians 1:13 ESV / 69 helpful votes

So that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 67 helpful votes

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Ezekiel 19:9 ESV / 65 helpful votes

With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 19:4 ESV / 65 helpful votes

The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 52:11 ESV / 65 helpful votes

He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

Philippians 1:12 ESV / 62 helpful votes

I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel,

Acts 4:12 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Psalm 107:14 ESV / 62 helpful votes

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 58 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 58 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Galatians 2:4 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—

1 Corinthians 15:55 ESV / 57 helpful votes

“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

Romans 8:15 ESV / 57 helpful votes

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

1 John 4:8 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Philippians 1:16 ESV / 54 helpful votes

The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.

Isaiah 58:6 ESV / 54 helpful votes

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

Psalm 116:16 ESV / 52 helpful votes

O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.

1 John 2:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

1 John 3:2 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Lamentations 3:7 ESV / 47 helpful votes

He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;

Acts 12:4 ESV / 43 helpful votes

And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.

Philippians 1:20 ESV / 42 helpful votes

As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

Mark 10:27 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

1 Chronicles 3:16 ESV / 39 helpful votes

The descendants of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son;

Acts 16:24 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

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